If they made toasters ....

If IBM made toasters ...

They would want one big toaster where people bring bread to be submitted for overnight
toasting. IBM would claim a worldwide market for five, maybe six toasters.

If Microsoft made toasters ...

Everytime you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a toaster. You wouldn't
have to take the toaster, but you'd have to pay for it anyway. Toaster'95 would weigh
15,000 pounds (hence requiring a reinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to
power a small city, take up 95% of the space in your kitchen, would claim to be the first
toaster that lets you control how light or dark you wanted your toast to be, and would
secretly interrogate your other appliances to find out who made them. Everyone would hate
Microsoft toasters, but nonetheless would buy them since most of the good bread only works
with their toasters.

If Apple made toasters...

It would do everything Microsoft toaster does, but 5 years earlier.

If Fisher-Price made toasters ...

"Baby's First Toaster" would have a hand-crank that you turn to toast the
bread that pops up like a Jack-in-the-box.

If The Rand Corporation made toasters ...

It would be a large, perfectly smooth and seamless black cube. Every morning there
would be a piece of toast on top of it. Their service department would have an unlisted
phone number, and the blueprints for the box would be highly classified government
documents. The X-Files would have an episode about it.

If the NSA made toasters ...

Your toaster would have a secret trapdoor that only the NSA could access in case they
needed to get at your toast for reasons of national security.

Does Digital (formerly DEC) still make toasters ...

They made good toasters in the '70s, didn't they?

If Hewlett-Packard made toasters ...

They would market the Reverse Polish Toaster, which takes in toast and gives you
regular bread.

If Sony made toasters ...

Their "Personal Toasting Device", which would be barely larger than the
single piece of bread it is meant to toast, can be conveniently attached to your belt.

If The Franklin Mint made toasters ...

Every month you would receive another lovely hand-crafted piece of your authentic Civil
War pewter toaster.

If Cray made toasters ...

They would cost $16 million but would be faster than any other single-slice toaster in
the world.

If Thinking Machines made toasters ...

You would be able to toast 64,000,000 pieces of bread at the same time.

If Timex made toasters ...

They would be cheap and small quartz-crystal wrist toasters that take a licking and
keep on toasting.

If Radio Shack made toasters ...

The staff would sell you a toaster, but not know anything about it. Or you could by all
the parts to build your own toaster.

If K-Tel sold toaster ...

They would not be available in stores, and you would get a free set of Ginsu knives
with each one.

If the University of Waterloo made toasters ...

They would immediately spin-off a company called WatToast.

If the PQ made toasters ...

They wouldn't want to be on the same counter-top as the rest of the appliances.